Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Film Theft Nets Four," Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug 1935: A3 Joseph Van Doren sits in a chair smoking a cigarette, his body turned away from the camera. Having lived in Los Angeles for less than a month, Toner and Van Doren, along with their wives Alice and Elizabeth, were arrested on the grounds of burglarizing 2,500,000 feet of film negatives from a film laboratory in Parlin, N.J. Upon initial questioning both men denied knowledge of the burglary but later Toner ascertained he had been contacted by someone to sell the raw film, but he did not know the material had been stolen. Text from negative sleeve: 1905 - Joe Van Doren Susp. Film Theft 8/28/35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935 Handwritten on negative: 101 101 Joe Van Doren 8/28/35
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8215 ark:/21198/zz002dg24c
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Cigarettes Criminals--California--Hollywood Radiators Van Doren, Joseph L., b. 1900 or 01
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